Noun
total war (countable and uncountable, plural total wars)
Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.
As it was, it took the United States until the 1960s to tackle more fully, and then imperfectly, the racial inequities of the 1860s – and that was with the reconstruction forced by total war. Source: Internet
Another example of this confusion is the idea that Clausewitz was a proponent of total war as used in the Third Reich's propaganda in the 1940s. Source: Internet
During this same period, the U.S. government began to mobilize for total war, instituting the first-ever peacetime draft and a fivefold increase in the defense budget (from $2 billion to $10 billion). Source: Internet
Flood 2005, p. 232 McFeely 1981, p. 148 Grant assigned Sherman the Division of the Mississippi and traveled east to Washington D.C., meeting with Lincoln to devise a strategy of total war against the Confederacy. Source: Internet
For countering an historical enemy with equal strength, Tatmadaw should fight a conventional warfare under total war strategy, without giving up an inch of its territory to the enemy. Source: Internet
Arguments that are favorable toward this perspective consider characteristics specific to the Russo-Japanese War to the qualities definitive of "total war". Source: Internet